Yakut parliamentarians have identified the responsible for the purchase of mammoth tusks

The Yakut parliamentarians determined the person responsible for the ransom of the mammoth tusks. According to the bill, initiated by the government of the republic, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic has been designated an authorized institution, the press service of the State Assembly (Il Tumen) of Yakutia informs.

The Academy of Sciences is an institution in state ownership of the republic, therefore, having the priority right to purchase the unique tusks of the mammoth and other remnants of the mammoth fauna in accordance with federal law. According to the Acting Chairman of the State Committee of Yakutia on Innovation Policy and Science Maxim Trofimov, the adoption of this bill will require the development of methods for assessing the value of the unique tusks of the mammoth and other remnants of the mammoth fauna of scientific and museum value.

Having adopted the draft law in the first reading, the Yakut parliamentarians submitted it for extended consideration. As Vladimir Prokopiev, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Land Relations, Natural Resources and Ecology of the State Assembly, noted, all comments and suggestions will be taken into account in a second reading.